I'd never heard of the Silver Brumby before but it looks neat! Reminds me a little of Dreamworks' Spirit movie, as well as Kimba the White Lion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Brumby
EDIT: This is technically an anime but it looks neat too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak
edited 19th Nov '17 5:26:51 PM by lalalei2001
The Protomen enhanced my life.
x6 - I can wholeheartedly SECOND that El Tigre and The Secret Saturdays were just Too Good to Last... And it makes me sad, knowing all of that.
Add Dave The Barbarian to the list.
Seriously, Disney Channel, why you gotta cancel that show? It was pretty much the modern day Rocky & Bullwinkle in terms of style and humor (or more accurately Dudley Do Right or George of the Jungle).
edited 30th Nov '17 12:08:53 AM by BigK1337
Anything done by Rabbit Ears Productions. Almost no one remembers this series and it was an animated series that I used to watch a lot when I was little. My favorite one has always been The Fool and the Flying Ship!
I love animation, TV, movies, YOU NAME IT!I saw like one episode of Sky Surfer Strike Force. Part of the problem growing up is that my parents wouldn't let me watch tv whenever, so I'd see single episodes of cartoons at my grandparents' house. Sky Surfer Strike Force, Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys... there was one cartoon where the kid is turned into The Cape by some green ooze, and he fought a vampire that had magic crystals- does that ring a bell with anyone?
I'm working my way through The Legend of Prince Valiant.
It's essentially "a feudal society experiments with enlightenment values." Pat Robertson was involved, and he forbade any supernatural shenanigans. So, we have scientists and engineers instead of wizards, camera obscura instead of magic mirrors, and instead of dragons we've got MEDIEVAL CANNON.
I really like it, because it's a study on what makes the good king the good king. Most stories I read have the good kings and bad kings wield their power in similar ways, but the good king does nice things and the bad king does mean things. Then there's stuff like "Game of Thrones" where the good guys have to be as nasty as the bad guys to get anything done. In "Prince Valiant" King Arthur sets up trial by jury, allows peasants and women to become knights (not all of whom have actual lands or titles beyond "knight of the Round Table"), and instead of conquering England is trying to organize a council where opposing kings can talk out their differences.
edited 1st Dec '17 6:53:50 PM by JBC31187
Should Sonic Satam be considered obscure? I know it's known for older Sonic fans, but if you told a younger Sonic fan about Sonic Satam they would be confused. Sonic Satam is probably now a time capsule of Sonic's early American mythology.
Among the obscure cartoons I like:
- The Trap Door, a British series about a blue monster named Berk (who oddly resembles a much fatter Cookie Monster) who lives in a castle and works for a monster called the Thing Upstairs, who lives at the top of said castle (naturally, given his name).
- Spliced, where Mix-and-Match Critters made by a Mad Scientist live on an island and try to make their own civilization with what little knowledge they have of the outside world.
- If you accept Eastern animation here, Gogona da Tovlis Gunda. It's a short film from the former USSR about a snow boy named Snowball who befriends a human girl. It doesn't appear to be obscure in its native Georgia, but it did not have any documentation on any English-language wiki until I made a trope page for it. Here's the whole short film, if you're interested in watching it.
- Pecola, a Canadian-Japanese co-produced cartoon/anime about a penguin boy who lives in Cube Town. I remember they used to show this on Qubo all the time.
- The Brothers Flub is by no means one of the favorites of mine, but at least it's better than its theme song would suggest.
edited 19th Dec '17 8:39:03 AM by SparkPlugTheTroper
Holy crap, almost forgot about The Trap Door. Really short Bottle Episode cartoons, but love the British charm to them.
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Speaking of The Trap Door, the companies that made that show made another show called Stoppit and Tidyup.
Basically, they managed to anthropomorphize the various commands that parents give to children (e.g. "Hurry up!", "I said no!", "Calm down!", etc).
Rose Petal Place had a lot of tie-in books! https://www.flickr.com/photos/battycollector/4943315997
Lady Lovely Locks did too ^^ http://ladylovelylocks.org/image
It also had short comics.
edited 5th Dec '17 2:01:57 PM by lalalei2001
The Protomen enhanced my life.
Rose Petal Place just needs to be remade into a Magical Girl show. It would be in the spirit of HeartCatch Pretty Cure!.
edited 5th Dec '17 3:15:04 PM by firewriter
x3 What Aegis P said. Especially seeing how Precure in general is described as the Dragonball Z of Magical Girls.
I know that, I thought Heartcatch was kinda in-between compared to some others.
The Protomen enhanced my life.In between!? Only Go Puri has better fights!
Also now that I know you know about Precure I like you even more Big K
As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.Pretty Cure has been known to be one of the most physical fighting magical girl series. However, Heartcatch takes it up to legendary levels, where it's a fan favorite of everyone. As said before, go see Go Princess Precure because in my opinion it's the anti-Revolutionary Girl Utena.
edited 6th Dec '17 10:35:43 AM by firewriter
I like Utena and Precure XD
Anyway, what other obscure cartoons do you guys like?
The Protomen enhanced my life.

The Dreamstone has a very hit and miss reception with me, though the pilot and the final season are pretty good, and the Urpney humour is consistent.
Bimble's Bucket is a somewhat more stable (if not quite as unique) retake of the show from the same creators.